This term isn't standard terminology used in AP Chemistry. However, if we consider "factoring" as breaking down into simpler parts, then it could refer to breaking down reactants into their constituent elements or simpler compounds during a chemical reaction.
Consider baking cookies as an example. You start with ingredients (reactants) such as flour, sugar, and butter. When you mix them together and bake (the reaction), they break down and recombine to form cookies.
Reactants: The starting materials in a chemical reaction that undergo change.
Products: The substances formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
Stoichiometry: The calculation of quantities in chemical reactions based on the balanced equation.
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